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When the Downs Come

Everyone's hit a writing slump, and if you haven't yet, you will. It's not a discouragement, it's the truth. No one feels like their a good writer all of the time, and if you do, TELL ME YOUR SECRET! I've been in a slump for a few days, so I thought I'd write this post.

So I had peopled all day on Saturday, and I came home and talked to Sierra and Hannah for a minute, and I looked at my stories, including the one for NaNo, and...I hated them. I didn't just think they were boring, I hated them. The only one I didn't hate was the one I was doing for OYAN.
These stories were boring. The characters were boring. No one would ever want to read them. Why couldn't I write stories like the ones Hannah, Sierra, and I write? Our characters interact so well, why can't mine?
I ended up telling them I was going to trash all of them. Of course they reacted as any amazing writing buddies would:

Somehow they convinced me not to trash the stories that night, and the morning!!!!

I was sick.
So I stayed home from church, listened to a sermon and worship music, and plotted. I mixed two stories, Fire N' Gold and Red King together, which worked out beautifully because Catus from Red King has horrible nightmares and is insane, and Emmy from Fire N' Gold manipulates dreams and then her own mess up and she starts going crazy too.
I was able to love a few of them and not trash them, but tragically, some are gone. Hazard, Renegade, all of the Flicker sequels. *sniffs* But the good news is, I have what I'm going to do for NaNo now.
It was going to be the second book in my Superheroes series (don't ask why the first, third, and fourth are written...), but then I decided to do my other two.
I am here to tell you something:You are a good writer.
We might not always feel like it, but that's normal. Thank goodness my fabulous friends kept me from trashing my stories, because I would have regretted that deeply.
We're all going to feel like a bad writer sometimes, I was just unlucky in feeling that way right before NaNo. There are many posts I could point you to if you still feel like this, but one I loved was Hannah's post.
Thank you so much for reading!

Rachael Do you ever get the downs? How do you deal with them? What's your favorite post about downs?

Comments

Mmm, I totally get the struggle. I don't know if you've seen my comments floating around the blogosphere about my decision concerning a similar topic, but in short: I had to scrap my Camp NaNo project and start something new. I don't want to clog up your comment section by saying why, so I'll just stop here. ;)

Oh, and when you say that Renegades, Hazard, and all the Flicker sequels are "gone", you don't mean you deleted them, do you? Because you might get a chance or a spark of inspiration to resurrect them; even if you don't, the memories will be gone if the document is deleted. And that would be sad. :'(

Awwww I'm so glad you like that post! And nooooo no never delete! Only put down. I wrote two full novels that I will probably never go back to, but I know I will never delete them. I spent four years on them, and they taught me to be the writer I am today! Never delete - only put away. You've got this! <3 I can't wait to cheer you on during the Nano craze!

Gahh I get the writing downs probably all too often. Writing is HARD and I just struggle with the fact accepting that I can do the writing thing? Too often I get the thought, "You are horrible at this and will never be an author" in my head and just... ugh. I hate times like this. -.-